Chinese Social Media Erupts With Glee at News of Abe Assassination
‘Chinese New Year celebrations came early this year,’ one blogger exclaims.

News of the death of the former Japanese prime minister is dominating Chinese social media today. The communist government’s embassy in Tokyo did issue condolences. Yet the sentiment on the internet, unlike that voiced by most others around the world, is not one of condemnation or shock or sympathy, but rather one of glee.
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